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   And now, finally, my first 24 hour comic, for your enjoyment. It's been a long buildup, but here it is now... tomorrow. It's gonna be comin' atsha one page at a time, if you feel you can handle it. I feel saying any more would be giving too much away, so, we'll start with the cover page and work our way from there. One page at a time. This

1. allows you to soak it all in, and 
2. it allows me to stall for posts. 

   But, seriously, I think it might take a while to digest, so this'll let you take it leisurely. Allow you to catch the little details so that the plot is less confusing? Remember, this is a comic whose pages I took one hour each on, plus the cover page and plot that ties these together, so each of these pages deserves its own special post, darn it.

We imagine space as being black. But it’s not. It’s blindingly brilliant.

   The keyboard is smudged and dirty from where people have struck the keys. The ones that are hardly used are the cleanest. Pale white, and lonely. Poor Q. Poor X. The home row, ASDF, is the dirtiest, with S being the most smudged and each letter from that gradually getting cleaner. Poor J. E and R are very used, an island of stain in a glittery white top row. The letters surrounding E and R, W and T, are also slightly smudged, but other than that, the top row is pretty pristine. If you stare at the keyboard and squint, you can begin to see the original intention of the guy who designed the keyboard in the first place, back when the letters needed to be spaced out to prevent typewriters from jamming.

Man of Steel

You will give the people an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders.

   Do we want our superheroes realistic? Do we want them as ideals? Our heroes used to exist in fantasy universes, then when we found that we could not pull ourselves up to their level, we dragged them down and brought them down to ours. Do we go to superheroes because they represent realism? Or is it now about how any one of us could be a hero?

   Superman has always been an ideal, which dis-intuitively inspires us more than if our heroes were more "realistic." The recent Dark Knight trilogy brings this to the head, where arguably it's the everyday citizens, and even everyday criminals, who are more capable of heroism than our protagonist.

   Superman is both. He's always been Superman. And he's always been Clark Kent. Jor-El's speech in the trailer is the perfect metaphor here, coming out at the perfect time: we as an audience may not be ready for a Big Blue Boy Scout, and we may not even deserve it, but that's what we're getting, because that's what we need.